‘Opinion’ Archives
Poll Results: Is Moodle Web 2.0?
We ran a quick, unscientific poll yesterday to try to figure what the consensus was on the Web 2.0-y-ness of Moodle. When asked "Is Moodle Web 2.0?" of those that responded: 51% yes 49% no Looks like it's statistically even. It's not necessarily important though (as was stated in the comments); making Moodle have the traits of Web 2.0 [...]
Poll – Is Moodle web 2.0?
This is our first poll at Moodlenews, and it stems from an ongoing discussion here about web 2.o and if Moodle qualifies for that designation . What makes this conversation particularly difficult is that there are differing viewpoints of what "web 2.0" actually is. Two definitions: Wikitionary - The second generation of the World Wide [...]
MS Office Add-in for students #moodlewish @iusher
Great, in depth post on the use of and potential of the Office Add-in for Moodle at Moodlea.blogspot.com today. Ian Usher (@iusher) highlights a lot of the features and raises some great questions about the use of MS documents in Moodle classrooms (and the why and how of easy access). Here's the full post: [...]
Moodle 1.9 Theme Design book review @moodlerific @packtpub [4 stars]
![Moodle 1.9 Theme Design book review @moodlerific @packtpub [4 stars]](http://www.moodlenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/themedesign-244x300.png "Moodle 1.9 Theme Design book review @moodlerific @packtpub [4 stars]")
I recently read the book "Moodle 1.9 Theme Design" written by Paul James Gadsdon and I must say, of all the Moodle-related books from Packt Publishing, I was the most excited to read this one. I take a great interest in Moodle themes and I enjoy learning this type of web development and design. Before reading this book I thought I had limited [...]
Opinion – Moodle Summer School
There's a great local article from The Pilot News (of Plymouth, Indiana) that talks of the local high school's first foray into an almost completely virtual offering for summer school. The course, Economics, will be the first online summer course offered to students and will be offered through the school's Moodle installation. In addition, the [...]
Opinion – 1,000,000 lines of code
Disclaimer: I'm no programmer; so I don't have much more than a cursory understanding of the development behind software like Moodle. But this isn't so much of an opinion post as it is (I hope) a few thought provoking questions. A quote from Sean Behan's recent review of "Moodle 1.9 Extension Development" struck me. Moodle is nearly 1 [...]
Opinion – What if Moodle were more like Facebook? @zaidlearn
Zaid Ali Alsagoff (@Zaidlearn) wrote a very provocative post recently about what he's hoping Moodle can become (http://goo.gl/9XEZ). The post was spurred by a Twitter-based conversation about #Moodlewish; an open solicitation for new Moodle features, functions and changes. Zaid goes on to discuss the ability and process of posting links to [...]
Opinion: Why the rush for #moodle2 when what’s available is so good?
I'm guilty of hyping the soon to be released beta preview. But it's only because it's the NEXT BIG THING for Moodle. That being said, there really is no reason to pressure the Moodle HQ team to release before they're ready, and here's why: Moodle 2.0 is a major release. Big changes take a lot of time. As someone said in the forums [...]
Opinion: @netcrit ponders web2.0 and Moodle Modules
Matthew Allen (@netcrit) posted and interesting piece about Moodle plug-ins and their comparison with web2.0 tools that can be easily integrated into the classroom. With the proliferation of embeddable content, will plug-ins and modules be replaced and allow for teachers to "off-shore" standard LMS functionality to other web services? It's an [...]
Opinion: The Importance of Moodle Mobile
New at MoodleMonthly: every week we'll run one op-ed from the community or the staff. So if you have something to say about Moodle here's your chance. Use the contact us form to connect with us or just comment below and let us know you'd like to get on deck. I wrote an article on the relevance and importance of Moodle Mobile over at [...]
